Asparagus Season is Fleeting. This Easy Recipe Is Forever.

I thought I came up with a whole new expression. It turns out I didn’t. I was thinking about asparagus and how it evokes emotion: the anticipation of its coming, followed by the thrill of its short season’s finally arriving. But there’s another emotion I was trying to put into words: that melancholy — sadness, even — of being in a moment and knowing it will soon be over. It makes the present feel gloomy, as if it…